Malmquist Reports
Until 1952 the Kearns family corporation held working control of Park City's Silver King Coalition Mines which subsidized The Salt Lake Tribune through many years after the newspaper's acquisition by Thomas Kearns. As the reader will learn, Senator Kearns maintained during his lifetime that "it takes a great mine to run a newspaper." The Tribune once had an opportunity to substantially repay its debt to the Silver King, an opportunity that was thwarted by the author of this book. 0. N. Malmquist will be remembered so long as there is a Tribune, as a great political reporter and editor. His assignments outside of the political field, however, were many—as many as the publisher's need to know exactly what were the facts in any complicated problem or situation; particularly those involving the public welfare of the area served by The Tribune. "If it's possible for any human being to be objective," John Fitzpatrick, the Tribune's late publisher, often said, "Malmquist is that one." "Quist's" colleagues and readers unanimously agree, but in wonderment for O. N. Malmquist is as opinionated a man as one is apt to find in the ranks of the well-informed; and he is wellinformed in many areas outside of politics. Historical, social, economic subjects never find Malmquist without a position. Additionally, he's been known to second guess more than one quarter-
